The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-03
FEDERAL AID TO SCHOOLS.
The Necessity of Such PROVISION MS
Contained In the Blair PHI

q demand for relief at oiicc'
IN GEORGIA;
In 1870 there were illiterate white oo
T., 50 H.. 2S,57l
An increase of over s3l per cent.
In 1870 in the same STATE there we're
Ia isso be-. lG5l6
An increase of 10 per cent
IN KENTUCKY:
In 1870. illiterate white voters Pc. i3o2o
In 1880. ......,......... ..'..E '''' '''''o
An increase Of over % per cefl.
In same state, IN 1870, thereI"ere o..o
Tn issa 49,. BIT
I'm increase of nearly 10 re- cent
IN TEXAS:
Il, 1874 ;u;,ora,o white voter ~ 1865
-, 800 ~ 33OS5
An increase of nearly 80 pa cent.
In same state, in 1870, there were
illiterate colored voters .t.''... -, I'D
In 1880. .................s "''''' '"'oo'
An increase of 26 per cent
| am not willing to pas this large
increase in illiterate votrs in Texas
without explaining hov 1t Is that
TEXTS should have gained Ill ms
downward movement SO rapidly.
Some of the voters are fom old Vir-
ginia, some from the CMolinass, from
Georgia, and not a few fpm Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana. This in
crease in illiteracy in thevoting popu-
Iatiou hes not ben confined
alone TO the States mentioned
The fact is, that with thecxception Of
little Delaware, the increse in litter
ate voters in the South rom 1870 to
1870 amounted to 1851. In this
downward" race it is. title singular
that the white and colond have kept
SO close together that he education
needed is not wholly for fhe brother
in black" The exact figures on the
subject The increase, during this de-
cade $3.50. 1890, of the ilibrate white
voters was 1929; of colored, 1882.
This is the status of the voters. the
fathers, it is even worse when we
look at the condition of tie mothers.
The census of 1880 shows that there
are in Kentucky, above tht age Of Il,
of white women who Ennot write
22.S per cent, and in Ndrth Carolina
there are 1874 per celI of white
women who cannot write If i'll the
death of these fathers andnothers IL
litei acy should cease we alould have
hope for the Republic, bu upon in
vestigation il will be ioundth hat illit-
e-acy is not only incrcasiisggAout that
1t is an inheritance thu multiplies
with each succeeding yea. This can
be best illustrated BY tho actual
amounts which would be received
under the provisions of tie Blair bill
were it to become law. The follow
ing States: Connecticut, Maine, Mas
sachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jer-
sew, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island and Vermont, will a popula-
ton of 12,724,322, would receive
SS,O99, 800 or "a cents per cpita. Tex
as with population, by tie same CEN
sus, of only 1891 ,749 could'eceive $244
per capita, or ten times IS much as
these great states. Litte Alabama
would receive seventeen fines as much
as these states. But there Is still an
other large section, the great North
west, composed of the sutes of Cali
fornia, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa. Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri. Nebraska, Ohio Oregon AID
Wilconsin, with population of 49,
462,t23, that must be brought into this
comparison. The states would receive
$I,4S6,S60 or "a cents per capita. Geor-
gia with a population of 1,542, $50,
would receive S6,042, 100, br nearly 81
per capita, nearly seventeen times as
much as all these great sthies.
Why is this? Simply because Geor-
gia has seventeen times as much illit-
eracy as all this vast territory teeming
with millions ofhappv, prosperous and
. intelligent people. who are proud to-
day on account of the grants of land'
from Virginia and the general govern
ment tor school purposes! Need more
be said upon the necessity of this aid!
BEYOND THEIg kEhfs
Sec5ndlACan thes furnish
this education? | ans cannot,
and in my answer Il M shown
that thew are not UNIV toI do, that
they are doing more for EDUCATION
according to their means than the
foremost states in the union.
North Carolina paid in 1880 upon
Sl6O,OO0O0O taxable property, She
realized $4,000, ST. to every $iC0.
Massachusetts paid the lame year upon
81 900 100000. and the school tax
amounted to $4,OOO,0OO, or 81 to every
300 of taxable property. That is,
North Carolina pays for school pur-
noses as much ad valorem as Nassa-
chusetts, with this terrible drawback
her population being 100000 less than
that of Massachusetts,, and is scattered
over seven times the tirritory of Mass
ochusetls. Hence, wdfind the schools